Descriptions : Jim Mellon Al Chalabi s explosive new book Fast Forward As the pace of technological progress intensifies agile businesses and entrepreneurs are discovering new applications that take advantage of faster and cheaper computer processing power The status quo is being upended across all industries and in some cases totally new industries are being created Fast Forward is a book that filters this chaotic landscape and identifies the areas that will have the greatest impact to our lives highlighting investment opportunities along the way These disruptive technologies span the fields of robotics transportation the changing internet life sciences D printing and energy all of which are experiencing tremendous growth With their previous books published over the past years Mellon and Chalabi have established an excellent track record of recognizing investment opportunities before they become mainstream starting with forecasting the Great Recession in and identifying gold as an excellent hedge More recently they have written about life sciences and their recommended stocks in Cracking the Code have outperformed every major market in the world